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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by yehi on Monday July 03, 2017 @11:38PM (#14693369)
the benefit of languages with cases is that you can switch the order of the sentence without changing the meaning. In those languages I can say "the dog bit the person" and "the (accusative) person bit the (nominative) dog" and it would not change the meaning of the sentence but it would allow me to emphasize one object more.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:44AM (#14694964)
You can still do that in English though: the dog bit the person, the person was bit by the dog
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by nicky0 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:45AM (#14694482)
The person, the dog bit.

- Yoda

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